Improvement in rollers for rolling old rails



VERREE & MITCH-ELL.

Rolling Railroad Rails.

. No. 65,968. Patented June 18. 1.867.

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JOHN P. VERREE AND WILLIAM A. MITCHELL, OF PHILADELPHIA,

PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 65,968, dated June 18, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT In ROLLERS FOR ROLLING 0L1) RAILS.

Be it known that we, JOHN P. Vnnnnn and WILLIAM A. MITCHELL, of the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new Method of Rolling Pieces of Railroad Iron into Bar or Rod Iron of any desired shape or size. 7 i

The nature of our invention consists in rolling a single piece of railroad iron by the use of the particular forms of grooves, so that when the piece of rail enters the roll it turns the flanges towards the centre, and completely encases or covers the-body or centre of the rail with the iron from the flange and head, thus making the bar or rod when finished of better quality by encasing or covering the common iron in the centre of the rail with the good iron in the flanges and head, instead of rolling or compressing the iron of the 'head and flanges into its own part, as is done by all other forms or inventions.

To enable others skilled in the art or business to make and use our. invention, we'herewith submit a drawing and form of groove or grooves that we claim.

We pass the piece of old rail or doekings of new rails through the groove numbered Nos. 1 and 2 in the drawing, which bends the flanges as described heretofore; and then passing the piece so bent and compressed through the ordinary oval and diamond grooves it is welded compactly together.

We claim, in three high rolls, series of grooves in each roll, shaped substantially as described.

We also claim grooves of the particular form represented by Figures 1 and 2, produced respectively by the conjunction of the groove of one roll with thegroove of another.

JOHN P. VERREE. [I.. si] W. A. MITCHELL. [L. 5.]

Witnesses:

B. F. HART,

G. T. MYERS. 

